Saying many Conservatives have “allowed this to happen” by “averting our gaze as tenured radicals have taken over the university,” Kinder added, “We could not avert our gaze from the appalling events at the University of Missouri in the last week.”

Kinder then cited an item by Heather MacDonald in City Journal: Racial Hysteria Triumphs on Campus, pointing out how the Left can now, in effect, weaponized athletic teams in what she called “the boorish, hate-filled Cultural Revolution come to America.”

Missouri, Yale, and America’s Cultural Revolution

According to the New York Times, the university could have lost more than $1 million had it forfeited its football game with Brigham Young University on Saturday.

The precedent set here is monumental. Any student protester who can convince his college’s football or basketball team to threaten a strike will be able to bring administrators to their knees even more quickly than usual.